as a probationer in 1806, exercised his ministry amongst us for twenty-nine years, and then became a Supernumerary. After enduring long-continued affliction with patient resignation to the will of God, he departed in peace on the 7th of January, 1850, in the seventyseventh year of his age.

4. JAMES M'CLINTOCK; who, a few weeks after he had arrived in the Killesandra Circuit, to which he was appointed by the last Conference, was incapacitated by illness for the work assigned to him. After lingering for some months, he finished his short course on the 19th of January, 1850, in the thirty-second year of his age, and fifth of his ministry. He was a laborious and useful man, and in death was graciously sustained by power from on high.

5. PATRICK FFRENCH; who in his youth, under the Methodist ministry, became the subject of the converting grace of God. His fidelity and zeal led his brethren to recommend him as a suitable Missionary for the West Indies, where he laboured with acceptance and usefulness for a period of nine years, when the failure of his health compelled him to return to his native land. There for two years longer he continued in the full exercise of his ministry; but the effects of a foreign climate on his constitution soon compelled him to become a Supernumerary. As such he was diligent in pastoral visitation and in preaching, so far and so long as his strength permitted. He was constant in his attendance upon the ordinances of the house of God, and exemplary in the discharge of the duties which devolved upon him. The period of his last illness was one of great suffering, but of Christian triumph. He died at Balbriggan, in the Drogheda Circuit, on the 5th of March, 1850, in the seventyfifth year of his age, and the thirtysecond of his ministry.

6. WILLIAM GUARD; who was born in Mountrath, in the Queen's County. Having been taught the fear of the Lord in early youth, when about sixteen years of age he was thoroughly convinced of his lost condition; and, after suffering deep mental anguish, he was enabled to rest on the atonement of the Son of God, and, believing, obtained life through His name. Constrained by the love of Christ, he now began to call the sinners around him to repentance, and with an encouraging degree of success. It was soon evident that the Divine Head of the church had called him to preach the Gospel; and, accordingly, having passed through the usual exami

nations, he was appointed to a Circuit in 1821. For the greater part of his ministerial life he laboured as an Irish Missionary. He was strongly attached to Wesleyan Methodism in doctrine and discipline, and was uniformly distinguished by godliness, simplicity, and strict integrity. His preaching was clear, evangelical, practical, and manifestly attended with the unction of the Holy Ghost. As a Christian and a Minister, he was much beloved. His death was mysteriously sudden. Retiring to rest on the night of April 6th, 1850, in his usual health and spirits, he was seized, about one o'clock in the following morning, with a fit of apoplexy; and, after an interval of three hours spent without much apparent suffering, he entered into the joy of his Lord, in the fifty-second year of his age, and the twenty-ninth of his ministry.

III. In our Foreign Missions, four have died; namely,—

1. WILLIAM LONGBOTTOM; who was of a well-known Methodist family, in Bingley, Yorkshire, and greatly profited by his early advantages. He was thoroughly convinced of the necessity of a Divine change under a sermon by the venerable Joseph Benson, delivered at the Leeds Conference in 1818. He appears to have very soon entered into "glorious liberty ;" and while he continued in his native town, he became distinguished by devotedness, perseverance, and energy, in various departments of usefulness. In 1826, Mr. Longbottom was summoned by the Missionary Committee to proceed to a foreign station; but, circumstances preventing his immediate departure, he was employed for a year or two at home. Having studied the Tamul language, under the direction of the Rev. Thomas H. Squance, at Reading, he embarked for Madras, in November, 1829. His ardent ministry excited the attention of the Anglo-Indian population of Madras. In pursuit of labours which he regarded as useful and important, be exceeded his constitutional strength; and thus, at the commencement of his Missionary career, most unfortunately sacrificed his health, and contracted a chronic disorder, which accompanied him through life, and often interfered with the vigorous and regular discharge of his duties. For the recovery of his health he embarked for the Cape of Good Hope, in 1835. Returning to India too early, and having received directions from the Missionary Committee to proceed to Swan-River, he

embarked for the Mauritius, proceeded thence to Van Diemen's Land, and there embarked for the Swan-River, which he never reached. The vessel in which he sailed with his family was calamitously wrecked in Encounter-Bay; and, before the nearest settlement, Adelaide, could be reached, he was exposed to hardships and fatigues which tended further to injure his constitution, already greatly impaired. Finding a small congregation, he opened his commission at Adelaide, and his acceptable ministry was the means of greatly advancing the religious interests of the colony. With some interruptions, and a temporary change to Van Diemen's Land, rendered necessary by the state of his health, Mr. Longbottom laboured in Adelaide until 1846, when he had permission to return home. He preferred, however, remaining at Adelaide, where he retired as a Supernumerary, continuing to preach as his strength permitted. The last weeks of his life were marked by extreme feebleness of body and mind. At times he suffered much pain; but this subsided, and on the 29th of July, 1849, he met death without fear. His mourning family and friends witnessed the fulfilment of words he had often uttered during his illness:-"The great atonement was made for me: all will be right at last!"

2. MATTHEW LANG; who was born in Ireland, in 1798, and brought up at Preston, Lancashire. In this town, when about sixteen years of age, he was converted to God through the instrumentality of Wesleyan Methodism. At the age of twenty-five, after having successfully discharged the duties of an Exhorter and Local Preacher, he was called into our ministry, and appointed to Canada, where he laboured as a faithful and diligent Missionary during the remainder of his life. Of him indeed it may be said, that all the energies of his body and mind were devoted to the accomplishment of the great purposes of that ministry to which he felt himself called by the Holy Ghost. He maintained an unblemished character during the whole of his public course, and was eminently distinguished by fervour and uniformity of zeal in seeking the glory of Christ and the salvation of man. yielded to none of his brethren in attachment to the doctrines and established economy of Methodism, or in the faithful enforcement of its discipline. He was "in labours more abundant; and his acceptable ministry was signally attended with the Divine blessing. He sustained

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with honour and integrity some of the most important offices in his District, and was, at the time of his death, Chairman of the Eastern Canada District, and General Superintendent of its Missions. The oft-repeated desire of his soul, in his most devout frame, was that which is expressed in the words,

"O that without a lingering groan

I may the welcome word receive;
My body with my charge lay down,

And cease at once to work and live!"

His end was in accordance with this wish. While engaged in the service of the church, he was suddenly seized with sickness, which in twenty minutes terminated in death. His last utterance, and indeed the only one which he had power to articulate, was in perfect unison with his unvarying trust in the atonement of Christ, and his untiring zeal for God's glory: "Sweet Jesus, help me to glorify Thee!" He died at St. John's on the 21st of February, 1850, in the fifty-second year of his age, and the twenty-seventh of his ministry.

3. SAMPSON BUSBY; who was born at Rainton, in Yorkshire, on the 16th of February, 1790. His parents were members of the Established Church; and in the forms and principles of that communion they appear to have trained up all their children. During his early years he was often the subject of good impressions; and, although these did not directly issue in his conversion, they prepared him for the reception of "the grace of God that bringeth salvation." In the state of mind produced by these gracious visits from on high, he was accustomed to attend the Wesleyan chapel, then lately erected in his native town; and under a faithful ministry, he was first awakened to a full sense of his lost condition as a sinner, and soon obtained mercy, and was made "a new creature in Christ Jesus." After discharging with credit and efficiency the duties of Prayer-Leader, Exhorter, and Local Preacher, he was received into the regular work, and appointed to labour in the Luton Circuit. Having for several months performed the work of an Evangelist in this place, he repaired to London, and was ordained by the late venerable Dr. Coke and others, on August 28th, 1812. In the ensuing spring he was sent as a Missionary to Newfoundland. His labours in that island, during four years, were remarkably owned of God, and honoured in the salvation of many souls. During his ministerial life Mr. Busby was stationed for a short

time in Prince Edward's Island; but the last twenty-nine years of that period were spent in Nova-Scota and NewBrunswick. In both of these Districts the Head of the church gave him many seals to his ministry, and many souls for his hire. In his last illness he was sustained by the presence and grace of his heavenly Father, and was enabled to rejoice in the "perfect love" which "casteth out fear." He fell asleep in Jesus on Easter Sunday, March 31st, 1850, in the sixty-first year of his age, and the thirty-eighth of his ministry.

4. JOHN MORTIER. This much esteemed and venerable Missionary was appointed to Nevis, in the West Indies, in the year 1814. His labours were owned of God in the islands of Nevis, St. Vincent's, Grenada, and St. Kitt's; but it was in the colony of Demerara that he chiefly exercised his useful ministry. For seventeen years he devoted himself to the spiritual interests of the inhabitants of that important and populous region. He was there during the period of the Rev. Mr. Smith's imprisonment and death; and he deeply sympathized with that injured man of God. before and after the date of emancipation, he enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all classes of the people, and was the honoured instrument of gathering many hundreds of precious souls into the fold of Christ, as well as of erecting several spacious chapels for the increasing congregations.

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have enjoyed such a share of health as was graciously vouchsafed to Mr. Mortier, in a climate which, at best, is exhausting to an English constitution; still fewer prefer so protracted a period

of foreign service. During the thirtysix years thus employed, Mr. Mortier returned twice to his own country;-in 1828, for the purpose of recruiting his health; and in 1848, after increasing infirmities had compelled him to become a Supernumerary. But in both instances, after a brief residence in England, he returned to that work which was ever the object of his devoted preference, and in which, as his health permitted, he laboured to the last. He was a godly, intelligent, and amiable man; one whose memory will long be held in high estimation by his surviving colleagues, and by all who had the opportunity of knowing his character and worth. He died of apoplexy, on the night of the 13th of June, 1850. An attack of the same disease some weeks previously had brought him into a very feeble state; but he recovered, though not perfectly. He was enabled, however, to resume his work of occasional preach. ing, in which he greatly delighted. During his affliction his soul was richly profited: he sought, in devotional exercises, more intimate intercourse with God, and was greatly comforted and strengthened with might by the Spirit in the inner man. He was evidently ripening for his inheritance; and often said to Mrs. Mortier and others, "My work is done." On the evening of his death he prayed with much fervour, and appeared as well as usual. About ten o'clock he was seized with apoplexy. The summons had arrived, and he was prepared to meet it. His soul was peaceful and happy, and about twelve o'clock he departed to his rest.

JUNE 26th, 1849.-At Dove-Holes, in the Buxton Circuit, Mr. Robert Cottrell, aged eighty-five. He was brought to the knowledge of God at an early period of life, and was distinguished by great simplicity, earnestness, and stability in his religious course. He held the beginning of his confidence steadfast unto the end. He was a consistent member of Society seventy years, during fifty of which he was usefully employed as a Class-Leader. He died in great peace, and in his last moments prayed that the cause of God might be continued and increased in the secluded place where he had so long lived and laboured. T. A. R.

Feb. 8th, 1850.-At Brimscombe, in the Stroud Circuit, aged fifty-three, Elizabeth, wife of Thomas White, Esq. In early life she was the subject of religious impressions. Her pious mother took her to hear the weekly lectures of an evangelical Clergyman, and privately endeavoured to impress on her mind the value and importance of religion. In 1819, Mrs. White went to Surrey chapel, to hear a funeral sermon on occasion of the death of an intimate friend. At this time she was deeply affected, and resolved to give her whole heart to God. She immediately became a member of that church; and continued in communion with it till the year

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1832, when, removing from London, she became united with the Wesleyan Methodists. During the last two years her strength sensibly declined; and, at times, she was laid aside by deep affliction. She had a conviction that her time was short, but neither repined nor murmured. patience "she" possessed" her "soul." She would frequently rise in the night to pray, and hold communion with her Saviour. For several weeks, when she was near the close of life, hier strength and spirits utterly failed: she lay apparently insensible to all around. Yet, in this state, her friends often found her with her hands clasped in the attitude of devotion. Two days before her death she revived; and from that time her whole soul was engaged in prayer and praise, till, completely exhausted, but in a manner the most tranquil, she breathed her last.

T. W.

April 3d.-At Brand-Top, in the Buxton Circuit, Mrs. Sarah Wardle, aged seventy-six. She was early converted to God, and was a member of Society sixty years. Her piety was genuine and unobtrusive; her mode of living, abstemious and self-denying. She considered the poor and needy, and esteemed the Ministers of the word of God highly in love for their work's sake: The bequests of her last Will to the various funds of Wesleyan Methodism testify the esteem in which she held that cause. In her last affliction her mind was kept in perfect peace. She was clothed with humility, and trusted only in the merits of Christ's death for admission into the kingdom of heaven.

T. A. R.

April 12th.-At Providence, in the Newtown Circuit, Montgomeryshire, aged twenty-eight years, Margaret, the beloved wife of Mr. Alsop. She was the subject of deep religious impressions when very young; and, about her eighteenth year, she was enabled to believe to the salvation of her soul. As additional light shone upon her mind, she sought that holiness without which no man can see the Lord. Though much afflicted, her spirit was resigned. She was a devoted wife, an affectionate inother, and a faithful friend. She looked for providential guidance in all things, and once recorded her deep and continual feeling in these lines:

"And why should I depart?

'Tis safety where Thou art;

And, could one spot alone Thy being hold, I, poor and vain and weak, That sacred spot would seek, And dwell within the shelter of Thy fold." During her last affliction she frequently expressed her happiness in the felt presence of the Saviour. A little before her death she said, "I am going home. I am on the banks of the river. Tell them I am going to glory." Then her eyes were fixed upwards, and her spirit suddenly took its flight to God who gave it.

J. E.

May 15th.-At Ripon, aged thirty-six, Martha, wife of Mr. Robert Aslin, and daughter of the Rev. J. Bate. In duty and affection to her parents she has been rarely excelled. Early in life her mind was impressed with religious truth.

She earnestly sought and found the one thing needful. From 1829 she fully devoted herself to God, and was a useful member of His church till the end of life. Amid the temptations common to young people, she conducted herself with Christian prudence. In 1843 she became the wife of Mr. R. Aslin. In that relation she did him good, and not evil, all the days of her life. Her mortal affliction was short and very severe; but the Saviour, who was precious in life, did not leave her in death. When apprised that medical aid could be of no further service, she received the message without a lingering groan. To her husband she observed that she could not have believed it possible to be so divinely supported in the near approach of death. The latter part of the hymn on page 450 of the Wesleyan Hymn-Book was much upon her mind, and proved a source of comfort. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord." J. B.

May 29th.-At Hull, Mr. Henry Boash, in the thirty-third year of his age. Converted to God in early life, he became most decided in his attachment to Wesleyan Methodism, and employed all his energies for the promotion of its interests. He was for many years a zealous and useful Local Preacher. He was remarkable for frankness and mildness, and equally so for generosity, mental activity, and zealous effort. About a year ago he resolved to emigrate to Port-Natal, and to take the superintendency of a small colony of Methodists; his principal object being to assist in diffusing the blessings of the Gospel in Southern Africa. But the anxieties and disappointments connected with the preparation for departing suddenly prostrated his energies; and, in the mysterious providence of God, he was called from that scene of activity and trial to enter into the joy of his Lord. During his last hours he gave full and triumphant evidence that all was right. One of his attendants, perceiving a placid smile on his countenance, said, "I am glad to see you smile; when he rejoined, "Why should not I, when all things work together for good to them that love God?"" He frequently uttered the precious name of Jesus, giving testimony of his acceptance through the Beloved, until he calmly sank away in death. W. W.

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May 29th.-At Eastmoors, in the Easingwold Circuit, Betty, the beloved wife of Mr. George Moon, aged fifty-five years. In 1812 she experienced a change of heart, and united herself to the Wesleyan Society, of which she continued a consistent member to the end of her mortal pilgrimage. In her last long affliction her faith was stronger than in her years of health; and, when reference was made to the precious blood of Christ, she exclaimed, "I have nothing else to trust in; but that is sufficient." As death approached, her prospects brightened; and her expressions were mostly those of praise to God. When near her end, she said,

""Tis Jesus, the First and the Last,

Whose Spirit shall guide us safe home." She was deeply attached to the great cause of Wesleyan Missions, as well as to the work of

God at home. For thirty-three years she, with her now bereaved husband, gladly received the Wesleyan Ministers under their roof. Her powers of mind were more than ordinary. The loss felt by her husband and children, they are well assured, is her eternal gain. W. W.

May 30th.-At Brackenbury, near Louth, Miss Mary Ann Page, late of Great-Yarmouth, aged thirty-five years. She was converted to God in her youth, and soon manifested her love to Him and to His cause by unwearied and successful labours as a Sunday-School Teacher, Tract-Distributer. Missionary Collector, and

Her health had been declining for the last two years. The attack which terminated her life was short, but severe. She bore it with exemplary patience; and her end was more than peace,-it was perfect exultation. She lived for heaven, and she has gone thither.

J. H. N.

June 2d.-At Pocklington, in the ninety-third year of her age, Mrs. Mary Mackley, who had been, for more than seventy-three years, a consistent and highly-esteemed member of the Wesleyan Society. Forty-eight years ago her husband, who had been a popular and useful Local Preacher, died, leaving her in straitened circumstances with a large family. In the course of this long state of widowhood she passed through many sorrows; but, amidst all, God was her refuge, His promises were her stay, and she exhibited a cheerful, as well as an earnest and humble, piety. During her last and brief illness, her confidence in Christ was strong and unshaken, and her hope of glory exulting. "I know," she exclaimed, with joy beaming in her countenance, "Christ will not leave me now. I know He will be with me to the end; for He hath said He will. I am going to be with Jesus, and I shall be with Him for ever in heaven. I have not a doubt of it." Before her last illness she had sometimes been harassed with fears respecting the final struggle; but, though the Jordan of death seemed, when viewed in the distance, wide and turbulent, she found, on approaching it, that it was but a narrow and peaceful stream. So calm and easy was her departure, that it could scarcely be perceived when the vital spark became extinct. S. R.

June 5th.-At Park-Lane, in the Madeley Circuit, Mr. John Ward, aged seventy-five, to whom our Lord's character of Nathanael might be applied," in whom there was no guile." He had been a steady and consistent member of the Wesleyan Society for fifty years, and had filled the offices of Steward, Leader, Local Preacher, and Trustee. His end was triumphantly happy. J. B. H.

June 5th.-At Tivoli-Terrace, Kingstown, in her thirtieth year, Catherine, the beloved wife of Mr. Alexander Hall. About nine years since, under the ministry of the word, she was deeply convinced of sin, and obtained salvation through

faith in Christ. During the protracted period in which her naturally delicate constitution yielded gradually to the power of disease, she held fast her confidence; and finally, committing her soul to her faithful Redeemer, passed through death to eternal life. R. M.

June 6th.-Mrs. Margaret Tait, the respected widow of Mr. James Tait, of St. John's, Antigua, aged forty-four years. Our departed sister in Christ had been a consistent member of Society about fifteen years. She was regular in attending the means of grace; and at her last weekevening opportunity she heard a discourse on Christian perseverance, which was made a spe cial blessing to her soul. To this season of good she often referred during the few weeks of her declining health; giving praise and glory to her Divine Saviour, in whose merits alone she trusted for eternal salvation. He was with His devoted servant, and by Ilis grace enabled her to endure trial with resignation. When visited by her Ministers and religious friends, she was always found in a spiritual and happy frame; intelligently conversing on the things of God, often expressing a desire to depart to be with Christ, and at length exemplifying the blessedness of those who die in the Lord.

June 14th.-At Middleton-Chiney, in the seventy-fourth year of her age, Mrs. Jones, wife of Mr. John Jones. In 1820 she became fully decided for God, and joined the Wesleyan Society. Not given to change, she continued unto death faithful to God, and to her own people. She was sympathising, kind, and benevolent; ever zealous for the prosperity of the Saviour's cause. Several hours every day she spent in devotional exercises. As a wife, a mother, and a mistress, she carefully and affectionately per formed the various duties that devolved upon her. Her last affliction was sudden, and of short duration; but, as she lived in a state of habitual readiness, and possessed a good hope of heaven, she finished her course in great peace.

J. S.